News & Analysis
NEC Electronics Europe to Exhibit at Equip Auto 2007
NEC Electronics Europe today announced its participation in the automotive fair Equip Auto 2007 being held October 15 through 20 at the Paris-Nord Villepinte Exhibition Center. The NEC Electronics booth will be featuring the company’s embedded automotive solutions including leading-edge IMAPCAR (Integrated Memory Array Processor for CAR) technology for driving assistance and vision processing.
TI delivers DOCSIS 3.0 with Puma 5 family
Texas Instruments has announced that the company is delivering on its promise to introduce the Puma 5 family of DOCSIS 3.0-based (Data Over Cable Service Interface Specification) cable modem chipsets to support CableLabs DOCSIS 3.0 testing in Certification Wave 56. This milestone will help drive the next wave of cable modem innovation and services.
RS-485/RS-422 single receiver delivers superior ESD protection in space-saving packages
Intersil has announced the ISL328xE series of single RS-485/RS-422 receivers designed with excellent IEC61000-level ESD protection (+/-16.5kV air gap and +/-9kV contact) and featuring an ultra-low supply current requirement in a small SOT-23 and TDFN packages.
Premier Farnell announces intention to acquire in India
Premier Farnell has announced that it has signed a letter of intent with Hynetic Electronics Pvt Limited (Hynetic) to purchase the assets and business carried on in India on Farnell’s behalf.
Wireless technology for intelligent green buildings presented at M & E '07
EnOcean GmbH will demonstrate its innovative self-powered wireless sensor technology for intelligent green buildings on Stand C22 at M&E 2007, The Building Services Event, taking place 10-11 October, Olympia, London. Powered by energy drawn from light, movement or even changes in temperature, EnOcean’s technology is rapidly becoming accepted as the standard for innovative sensor solutions in ecological building automation projects, ensuring gre...
Motion Sensors from STMicroelectronics Spearhead MEMS Consumerization
STMicroelectronics today introduced a new generation of ‘nano’ three-axis linear accelerometers. The versatile, low-power MEMS sensors provide complete output flexibility and embedded smart features, meeting the exploding demand for miniaturized motion-sensing solutions in the consumer and industrial markets.
Keithley’s German Service Centre Joins List of ISO 17025 Accredited Laboratories
Keithley Instruments has announced today that the American Association for Laboratory Accreditation (A2LA) has accredited Keithley’s German service center to ISO/IEC 17025:2005, the single most important metrology standard for test and measurement products. At the same time, the Metrology Services Department at Keithley’s Cleveland headquarters, which received A2LA ISO/IEC 17025:2005 accreditation a year ago, dramatically expanded its capabil...
Interactive Projection System from 3M
3M Visual Systems has announced an interactive model to its Digital Media System 800 Series of wall-mounted projection devices for classrooms, boardrooms and training centres. The DMS810 features Vikuiti Super Close Projection technology from 3M and a built-in digital annotation pod to create a fully-integrated interactive system. It complements the existing DMS815 interactive model with detachable pod, offering an increased level of flexibility ...
Emerson to acquire Motorola's Embedded Communications Computing business
Emerson and Motorola have announced that the two companies have entered into a definitive agreement under which Emerson will acquire Motorola's Embedded Communications Computing (ECC) business for $350 million in cash. Motorola's ECC business, which had 2006 revenue of approximately $520 million, will strengthen Emerson's position in the $6 billion-and-growing merchant embedded computing industry. Upon completion of the transaction, Motorola's...
Palm sized fanless PC for less demanding applications
The new EPC-200 from BVM is a complete PC in a tiny, palm-sized 115 x 115 x 35mm housing, designed for applications where raw processing power is not required. Typical embedded uses would be in POS kiosks, protocol converters, machine controllers, display managers and similar uses. The unit does not need forced cooling and, despite its compact dimensions, it is a fully featured PC, able to run the Linux o/s from a bootable Compact Flash card or...